Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets, Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns: With Criticisms on Their Works, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writersdirection of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, 1851 - 508 páginas |
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... taste , he has given a more comprehensive account Among the many poets from whose works selections have been taken , there are some whose lives present features of peculiar interest , and which cannot be studied without producing a ...
... taste , he has given a more comprehensive account Among the many poets from whose works selections have been taken , there are some whose lives present features of peculiar interest , and which cannot be studied without producing a ...
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... whose original genius , refined taste , and powerful imagination , have enriched its treasures with the most splendid productions of the human intellect . ? It has been deemed the most useful arrangement to detach PREFACE.
... whose original genius , refined taste , and powerful imagination , have enriched its treasures with the most splendid productions of the human intellect . ? It has been deemed the most useful arrangement to detach PREFACE.
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... taste for literary im- provement ; and to inspire the young student with a love of all that is pure in thought , beautiful in expres- sion , and moral in tendency . " From the lives of some a most poets , " Sir Walter Scott has justly ...
... taste for literary im- provement ; and to inspire the young student with a love of all that is pure in thought , beautiful in expres- sion , and moral in tendency . " From the lives of some a most poets , " Sir Walter Scott has justly ...
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... taste for knightly gallantry , and his powers of description . " To form a just estimate of Lord Surrey's poetical merits , and of the important services he rendered to English literature , it will be necessary to advert briefly to the ...
... taste for knightly gallantry , and his powers of description . " To form a just estimate of Lord Surrey's poetical merits , and of the important services he rendered to English literature , it will be necessary to advert briefly to the ...
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... taste . " The effect of this state of public affairs was , that although Lydgate , Gower , Skel- ton , and a few other inferior writers of verse followed Chaucer , there was no distinguished name in English poetry for nearly a century ...
... taste . " The effect of this state of public affairs was , that although Lydgate , Gower , Skel- ton , and a few other inferior writers of verse followed Chaucer , there was no distinguished name in English poetry for nearly a century ...
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